Typhoon No.19 Kanto Koshinetsu Tohoku and other record heavy rain 8 heavy rain special warning in 8 prefectures October 13 0:16

Due to the large and strong typhoon No. 19, it has become a record heavy rain in Kanto Koshinetsu, Tohoku and Tokai, and river flooding and landslide disasters occur one after another. The Japan Meteorological Agency has issued special heavy rain warnings to Kanto Koshinetsu and 8 prefectures in the Tohoku region, calling for the highest level of warning and actions that are likely to save lives.

According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, a large and strong typhoon No. 19 is causing heavy rain clouds, mainly in Kanto Koshinetsu and Tohoku, and especially in the Pacific side of Tohoku, extremely heavy rain continues.

In 1 hour until 11pm on the 12th,
▽ 60mm in Marumori, Miyagi
▽ We observed very heavy rain of 59mm in Sendai City.

▽ In Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, the amount of rain that fell in the 48 hours until 10 pm on the 12th reached 1000 mm, which is about one third of the year,
▽ The amount of rain that has fallen in the last 12 hours has exceeded 500 millimeters in Marumori-machi, Miyagi.

It has been a record heavy rain in Kanto Koshinetsu, Tohoku, and Tokai, and there have been a series of floods and sediment disasters.

As it is highly likely that serious disasters have already occurred in Tohoku and Kanto Koshinetsu, the Japan Meteorological Agency has announced special heavy rain warnings in 8 prefectures in Kanagawa, Saitama, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Nagano, Niigata, Fukushima and Miyagi. We are calling for the highest level of vigilance and safety.

The risk of landslide disasters has increased greatly due to the rain so far, and landslide disaster warning information has been announced in various places.

The areas that have been announced are Ibaraki, Gunma, Tochigi, Tokyo, Saitama, Kanagawa, Chiba, Yamanashi, Nagano, Shizuoka, Nara, Niigata, Toyama, Iwate Prefecture, Miyagi prefecture, Yamagata prefecture, Fukushima prefecture.

In addition, there are rivers where the risk of flooding is so high that it exceeds the "flooding dangerous water level" in Fukushima Prefecture, Tochigi Prefecture, Yamanashi Prefecture, Nagano Prefecture, Shizuoka Prefecture, Ibaraki Prefecture, Saitama Prefecture, Miyagi Prefecture, Yamagata Prefecture. , Kanagawa, Tokyo, Chiba, Niigata.

The large and strong typhoon No. 19 is moving northeast around Hitachi City, Ibaraki Prefecture at midnight on the 13th at a speed of 45 km.

The atmospheric pressure at the center is 965 hectopascals, the maximum wind speed is 35 m, the maximum instantaneous wind speed is 50 m, and storms with a wind speed of 25 m or more are blowing within 330 km southeast of the center and 260 km northwest.

During this time, a wide range of eastern Japan and Tohoku was in the storm,
▽ In Tokyo, 41.5m after 9:00 pm on the 12th
▽ In Sendai City, a maximum instantaneous wind speed of 27.2m was observed just after 10:00 on the 12th.

Future rain and wind prospects.
▽ A few hours later in Kanto and Hokuriku,
▽ In Tohoku, it will rain very heavily until the dawn of the 13th, and it may rain heavily locally.

The amount of rain that falls in the 24 hours until late at night on the 13th is high,
▽ 250mm in Tohoku,
▽ 200mm in Niigata Prefecture,
▽ 100mm in Hokuriku and Hokkaido,
▽ 80mm at Kanto Koshin
▽ It is expected to be 50 mm in Tokai and Kinki.

The strong wind continues, and the maximum wind speed on the 13th is
▽ 40m at Kanto Koshin
▽ 35m in Tohoku,
▽ 30m in Izu Islands,
▽ 28m in Hokkaido,
▽ 27m in Hokuriku
▽ 25m in Tokai,
▽ 23m in Chugoku region
▽ It is expected to be 20m in Kinki, Shikoku and northern Kyushu.

The maximum instantaneous wind speed is
▽ 55m at Kanto Koshin
▽ 50m in Tohoku,
▽ 45m in Izu Islands
▽ 40m in Hokkaido and Hokuriku,
▽ 35m in Tokai and Chugoku region,
▽ It is expected to reach 30m in Kinki, Shikoku and northern Kyushu.

The ocean continues to have high waves,
▽ 13m in Kanto,
▽ 12m in Izu Islands
▽ In addition to being a furious 11m hit in Tohoku,
▽ 8m in Tokai and Kinki,
▽ 7m in Hokkaido and Hokuriku
▽ It is expected to be a 6m extra in the Chugoku region and northern Kyushu.

In the Kanto Koshinetsu and Tohoku areas, the highest level of caution is required for landslide disasters, low land inundation, river flooding, storms and high waves.

Even in places where it is thought that disasters do not usually occur due to rain that has fallen so far, the danger is rising so much that there is no experience, especially river flooding and earth and sand disasters may occur after rain has stopped There is.

The Japan Meteorological Agency has called for actions that are likely to save life even if it is dangerous to move to an evacuation site, such as moving to a room on the second floor or higher of the building opposite to the cliff or slope.